Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2025
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurocognitive disorder that deteriorates memory and impairs cognitive functions. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is generally considered as an intermediate phase between normal cognitive aging and more severe conditions...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2025
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) afflict almost 7 million people in the USA alone. The majority of research in ADRD is conducted using post-mortem samples of brain tissue or carefully recruited clinical trial patients. While these res...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2025
Accurate prediction of suicide risk is crucial for identifying patients with elevated risk burden, helping ensure these patients receive targeted care. The US Department of Veteran Affairs' suicide prediction model primarily leverages structured elec...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Ensuring antibiotics are prescribed only when necessary is crucial for maintaining their effectiveness and is a key focus of public health initiatives worldwide. In cases of sinusitis, among the most common reasons for antibiotic prescrip...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Access to firearms is associated with increased suicide risk. Our aim was to develop a natural language processing approach to characterizing firearm access in clinical records.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to (1) review machine learning (ML)-based models for early infection diagnostic and prognosis prediction in post-acute care (PAC) settings, (2) identify key risk predictors influencing infection-related outcomes, and (3) e...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to automate the prediction of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, a widely adopted standard for cognitive assessment in patients with Alzheimer's disease, using natural language processing (NLP) and machine learnin...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVES: Social support (SS) and social isolation (SI) are social determinants of health (SDOH) associated with psychiatric outcomes. In electronic health records (EHRs), individual-level SS/SI is typically documented in narrative clinical notes r...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
OBJECTIVE: We proposed adopting billing models for secure messaging (SM) telehealth services that move beyond time-based metrics, focusing on the complexity and clinical expertise involved in patient care.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 1, 2025
BACKGROUND: Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a group of rare but treatable conditions associated with diagnostic delays of 15 years on average. The advent of electronic health records (EHR) data and machine learning (ML) may improve the timely recogn...
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